Macroscopic Reality from Quantum Complexity

Diederik Aerts, Thomas Durt, Andrey Anatoljevich Grib +2 more

Amihud Gilead

Irfan Boko

This paper proposes a conceptual reinterpretation of the transition from microscopic quantum description to macroscopically differentiated reality. Rather than treating the emergence of definite outcomes solely as a problem of observation or wave-function collapse, it examines measurement as an irreversible process of organizational differentiation. In this framework, microscopic possibilities become physically distinguishable realities through interaction, amplification, environmental coupling, information stabilization, and the formation of persistent records. The paper introduces the Generalized Organizational Threshold Hypothesis (GOTH): certain transitions—from quantum alternatives to classical outcomes, from chemistry to life, and from neural activity to cognition—may share an abstract architecture in which quantitative accumulation produces a qualitative reorganization of the system. This proposed similarity is not assumed to establish a universal physical law; it is presented as a testable research hypothesis requiring domain-specific mathematical and experimental validation. The framework distinguishes established quantum theory from interpretive extension and does not claim to replace decoherence theory or existing formulations of quantum mechanics. Instead, it suggests that decoherence explains the suppression of observable interference, whereas organizational differentiation may help explain how stable, causally effective, and historically persistent macroscopic realities emerge. The paper concludes by outlining possible formal variables, comparative models, and empirical criteria through which organizational thresholds could be investigated across different physical and complex systems. Keywords Quantum measurement; quantum-to-classical transition; organizational differentiation; Generalized Organizational Threshold Hypothesis; GOTH; decoherence; emergence; irreversibility; information stabilization; amplification; macroscopic reality; complex systems; threshold dynamics; persistent records; foundations of quantum mechanics.

A. J. Leggett

Ronald Jerry Greene

This paper presents one of the most remarkable discoveries to have occurred in science with the finding of the open gate into the quantum world which occurs simultaneously with the macroscopic quantum superposition of a human life-form. The reason these two events occur together is that Newton’s domain has a rule which does not allow multiple states of reality in it. Newton’s domain therefore automatically expels any such multiple reality states into a second parallel universe called the quantum domain. Thus, many of the rules in the quantum world are different from those in Newton’s domain. For example, it allows multiple states of reality. What I do know for certain is that I would have never made it back to Newton’s domain after I went into a state of macroscopic quantum superposition without the help of the sentient beings who monitor our domain and who taught me how to reverse my multiple superposition state. Further, this leads us directly to the solution of the measurement problem showing us for the first time how we get to the classical domain from the quantum domain. This, by revealing how such multiple states of reality can be turned into complex single classical states or composites by the merging of all of their electrons together. So, this obviously is a turning point for mankind as the sentient beings now want us to know just what kind of science this is, that we are not alone, and that a whole new world has just opened up for us to be in.